Calendar

2006

July 9-11
ILCA Board of Director's meeting

July 12-16
2006 ILCA Conference in Philadelphia, USA.

August 1-7
World Breastfeeding Week

ILCA Bookstore

If you’re attending the 2006 Conference, leave room in your suitcase for Bookstore purchases! Visit the Conference Bookstore early as many items sell out quickly! Most items from the online Bookstore will be available, and some will be on sale!

2006 World Breastfeeding Week Kits

Order your World Breastfeeding Week Kit from ILCA’s online Bookstore now! The 2006 kit theme is PROTECTING BREASTFEEDING in support of the WBW theme, “Code Watch: 25 Years of Protecting Breastfeeding.”

NEW additions to this year’s kit include a patient pamphlet in English and Spanish, an 11 x 17 inch poster in English, a Breastfeeding-Friendly Clinic Environment checklist, reproducible waiting room sign (in English and Spanish), sample crib cards with a breastfeeding message, an easy guide to understanding the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, sample WHO Growth Chart, and numerous other inserts. A poster in Spanish and additional posters in English are available for purchasing separately. [more]

New WBW Promotional Items

 ILCA has created these exciting new promotional items to help you celebrate WBW in style!

Buttons with the “Protect Breastfeeding” logo
Diaper bag tags with the “Protect Breastfeeding” logo
Bulk copies of the new breastfeeding hospital crib cards
Highlighter pens with the theme, “Highlighting the Code: Protect
Breastfeeding”

Clinical Guidelines and ‘At a Glance’ Combination

Purchase the full text of Clinical Guidelines for the Establishment of Exclusive Breastfeeding together with the new At-A-Glance pocket guide and receive a $3 discount off the price of the two items if purchased separately.

Practice Notes

Tool for Assessing Risk of Hyperbilirubinemia

A tool which uses the Bhutani Nomogram to assess the risk of hyperbilirubinemia in newborns can be downloaded to a Palm Handheld for quick reference from www.bilitool.org. The site includes links to relevant articles in Pediatrics and to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 2004 revised guidelines on management of hyperbilirubinemia in newborn infants of 35 or more weeks of gestation http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/114/1/297.

Abstract/Free Full Text

Email your Practice Tips to ILCA eGlobe editor Beverley Rae at beverleyrae@ilca.org.

World Breastfeeding Week

Celebrate WBW with ILCA’s Promotional Items

As well as its always-eagerly-awaited WBW Kits ILCA has new promotional items this year! Order from the Bookstore Today!

2006 WBW Diaper Bag Tag, Heart Shape

This colorful heart-shaped diaper bag tag is a great gift for new mothers, for breastfeeding advocates to use as a luggage tag or for colleagues to loop through clipboards or other items used in clinics or hospitals. These tags are a great way to help counteract the formula company images that are so prevalent in healthcare settings.

Baby Crib Card

Encourage your hospitals to discontinue using crib cards manufactured by infant formula companies, and replace with these colorful new cards that promote breastfeeding instead.

Volunteer Opportunity

Research Committee

New members are needed for ILCA’s Research Committee to replace current members who will complete their term of office in July 2006. [more]

Professional Development Committee

 ILCA seeks members for the Professional Development Committee (PDC) to replace current members who will leave the committee in July 2006. [more]

There’s still time to register for the 2006 Conference! Register online at www.ilca.org or by mailing or faxing a completed registration form to the ILCA office.

• Reserving a Hotel Room [more]
• Getting to the Conference [more]
• Weather [more]
• Registration Desk Hours – Liberty Ballroom Foyer [more]
• Exhibit Hall Hours [more]
• Information for Conference Volunteers [more]
• Online Conference Program Planner [more]
• Optional Special Events: Emergency Preparedness Workshop/Tours of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia [more]

ILCA Discussion Board Links Conference-goers

Need a roommate for the 2006 Conference? Want to share with someone who already has a room? Post a message on ILCA's online Discussion Board .

The Board can also help you find a shared ride from the airport, connect with other Jewish Sabbath observers at the conference, or find a travel buddy. More current threads include ‘Childcare’, ‘Post-conference travel’, and ‘Dining near the hotel’.

Go to www.ilca.org , then click on Discussion Board on the Home page. To facilitate responses, be sure to include your email address.

‘Breast Feed or Else’ – New York Times Article Creates Furor

A hard-hitting article in the New York Times on June 13, 2006 compared the risk of not breastfeeding to the risk of smoking in pregnancy. The first sentence of the article stated: ‘Warning: Public health officials have determined that not breast-feeding may be hazardous to your baby's health’. The article remained on the NY Times ‘Most E-mailed Articles’ List for a week and was a hot topic on TV news programs in the United States. Click here to read it. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/health/13brea.html?ex=1150862400&en=12df20db104ff0f1&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Kathleen Bruce, co-founder and current leader of Lactnet.

Lactnet Wins Award for Communications Excellence

Lactnet a major online resource for the breastfeeding support community, has won the LISTSERV Innovation Award in L-Soft's 2005-2006 LISTSERV Choice Awards program. The award recognizes more than a decade of Lactnet's creative and effective use of email list technology in promoting maternal-child health on a global scale. [more]

Highlights of March 2006 ILCA Board of Directors Meeting

Keep abreast of ILCA news! Learn what your association is doing to promote you! Click here for an executive summary of the March 2006 ILCA Board meeting.

 INFACT Canada Statement on New WHO Growth Standards

A statement from INFACT Canada notes interesting details that have emerged from the WHO growth reference study:

• The existing weight requirements for two and three-year-olds were 15 to 20 per cent too high
• The formula-fed standard put a healthy one-year-old between 22.5 lbs and 28.5 lbs, whereas the healthy breastfed infant weighs in at between 21 to 26 lbs.
• The differences in growth rates and patterns between exclusively breastfed and formula-fed infants become evident at the early age of two tothree months.
• The survey's highly compelling results show that it is not the breastfed infant who is not growing well, but the formula fed infant who is fed too much and consequently grows too quickly.
• The daily energy intake for babies should be about seven per cent less than current levels.

Read the full statement [more]

Viewing the New Growth Charts

Go to http://www.who.int/childgrowth/en/ to view and download the charts and find out more about The Multicentre Growth Reference Study. While you’re there, take advantage of the training video (25 minutes) or assessment software. Then click on “Publications” to read more about it, from the latest issue of Acta Paediatrica (available free), to reports in Statistics in Medicine, Food and Nutrition Bulletin, and more.

Purchase the New Growth Charts in Bulk from ILCA Bookstore

The new WHO growth charts (Chart 1 & Chart 2) are available in bulk from the ILCA Bookstore for busy clinicians who prefer to purchase them printed and packaged for use. Both boy and girl charts for ages 0 to 2 years are available, printed back to back to save space in charts.

Downloadable Bookmarks

ILCA is pleased to offer downloadable artwork for a beautiful set of bookmarks developed by Susan Burger. These bookmarks were initially created for the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition meeting recently held in Geneva, Switzerland. Thanks to Susan for sharing them with fellow members. Choose from the following, or download them all!

• Education of Girls
• Immunization
• Micronutrients
• Water and Sanitation